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At UCLA, we have designed custom, high-speed digital-processing printed circuit boards (PCBs). UCLA's HEP Group joined Xilinx/AMD's early-access program for the Versal VP1802 in early 2022, when R&D on the boards began. Since then, the FPGA has been commercialized. We have gone through multiple versions of the design and, in 2026, are ready to deploy it underground at CMS for the LHC upgrade. UCLA is the only university in the world to deploy a finalized R&D design using the Versal VP1802 for the LHC. The electronics are manufactured and fabricated by some of Silicon Valley's best high-precision electronics companies, which also serve technology giants. We developed a High-Density Interconnect (HDI) design featuring blind, buried, and microvias. It hosts Xilinx FPGAs, most recently the Versal VP1802 and formerly the Virtex series, with high-speed optical-link plug-ins that interface with the CMS detector to gather critical physics data in real time. We condensed the stack-up into 18 layers while supporting 375 W of core power and maintaining high-quality digital signals across the high-speed links. At the Level-1 Trigger, we are the first line of defense for removing junk events and retaining high-quality muons. Our hardware must support the speeds required for real-time processing without disrupting downstream systems, thereby ensuring accurate physics analyses. Our electronics are multipurpose and are currently being developed for use as powerful controllers for RF systems in quantum computing. We are very proud of the electronics R&D work we delivered.